Coding Relic

A brief prompt: In authheader.go write a function to parse a SIP WWW-Authenticate header for Digest authentication. It should return a ma...

Google recently introduced Gemma3-270M, a smaller Gemma3 model with "only" 270 million parameters instead of billions. The most...

In July 2025 we took a tour of the Geothermal Exhibition at Hellisheiðarvirkjun in Iceland , all about Geothermal power. My spouse is a Prof...

My spouse's German mother emigrated to the United States in 1958. Until 1975, German mothers did not pass on citizenship to children bor...

I've written about our journey to German citizenship for my wife and our children . Yet merely having a German passport, Passdeutsche, ...

Reprising last year's trip , we spent another July in Europe this year. One somewhat less pleasant aspect of last year's trip was ...

In the 2010s I managed an engineering organization with teams in California and New York. I travelled to NYC a number of times, typically st...

Tello is a T/Mobile MVNO in the US which offers good support for Voice-over-Wifi, whereby voice and SMS can be sent using an Internet conne...

I started experimenting with Claude Code a while ago. I am not the first person to make this observation, but thinking of Claude Code as an ...

There have been a large number of US troops stationed in Germany for decades, since the end of World War II. As happens in these circumstanc...

Our pool pump uses an Intermatic timer which stopped working a few weeks ago. The mechanical timer mechanism is labelled as a Paragon Electr...

I powered on two HomeAssistant Voice Preview Edition devices , trying to replace our use of Google Home. It is set up self-hosted in a HomeA...

By Ed Hawkins, climate scientist. CarlinMack created this version. Three weeks ago contracts for the National Climate Assessment wer...

Climate Week is drawing to an end , not yet done but one can see the close approaching. I have spent a bit over a year now on my own, do...

As I did last year, I took the train to get to SF Climate Week. In this area that means taking Caltrain up the Peninsula before switching t...